Chapter Fifteen: Breaching the Camp

  The terrifying roar of the beast also reached the bandits' camp. Suddenly hearing this sound, the group of thieves were shocked and looked at each other in dismay.

  "What... what is this sound?" Dennis exclaimed in astonishment.

  Matthew said: "I've never heard of it, but it seems to be coming from that valley over there."

  "What's going on? Has something happened over there?" Denis couldn't help but ask.

  Matthew shook his head: "It shouldn't be, but it's better to send someone to take a look..."

  Just then, a succession of cries arose from the rear of the camp: "It's terrible! A fire has broken out!"

  "What else?" Matthew turned around hastily, both startled and angry.

  Just a few minutes ago, the camp was still intact, but suddenly it had turned into a sea of flames. The high-rising flames quickly engulfed the wooden houses, and the firelight illuminated the sky, with thick smoke billowing out in all directions.

  And what's more, new fire heads are emerging at an incredible speed everywhere.

  "Good grief!" Matthew exclaimed in surprise, hastily saying: "Quickly take someone to see what's going on!"

  This is Dennis' camp, he nodded and led a group of subordinates to rush towards the fire.

  The sudden strange howl and the large fire that suddenly broke out in the camp... The series of strange events made Matthew's heart surge with intense unease.

  Was it possible that the carriage carrying precious goods was not a "fat sheep" at all, but rather a monster come to devour itself?

  "Don't... calm down, calm down, things can't be that bad, it's just some unexpected events."

  Matthew kept reminding himself in his heart.

  At this time, Dennis led the way to the fire and directed his men to put it out in a state of great excitement. Suddenly, from the rolling thick smoke came a muffled roar, before everyone could understand what was happening, they saw an object rushing out violently.

  The two robbers standing in the front were caught off guard and were immediately knocked flying, at this time everyone borrowed the firelight to see clearly, that it was a male cow with its face covered with bony armor and a pair of huge horns.

  "How can there be a demon beast here?" For a moment, everyone had the same question in their minds.

  However, the beast apparently did not want to give them time to explore the truth. It lowered its head, pawed the ground with its hooves, and then charged towards the most densely populated area of the crowd.

  This thing is enormous in size, and when it runs, its momentum is extremely frightening. The crowd dare not block it, and immediately shouted and scattered to escape. Then that strange cow began to revel without any restraint in the camp, wherever there were more people, it would rush over, really not knowing what shyness was.

  The bandit camp, which was already in a state of great confusion due to the sudden outbreak of fire, became even more chaotic.

  In fact, the demon beast looked very powerful, but it was just a low-level demon bull. Except for its great strength, there's nothing difficult to deal with. However, the bandits who were scared out of their wits had no ability to distinguish and could only run around in a panic.

  This thing, along with the sudden outbreak of fire in the camp, was naturally Bast's masterpiece. Those fires were lit by a type of incendiary bomb produced in Lowell, which is said to have been invented 20 years ago by Mary, a legendary great alchemist who left the Magician's Guild and single-handedly established the first Alchemist Union on the continent of Mojina.

  This incendiary bomb contains a unique igniter of her own creation, with an astonishing effect that almost anything it touches will burn. It is currently widely used in naval battles and siege warfare, and is one of the best-selling products on the continent of Mojina, and is one of the flagship products of the Lovell Chamber of Commerce.

  According to legend, Mary herself once said that this incendiary bomb and another mysterious product sealed by Lord Lowell were the proudest inventions of her early alchemy career.

  In short, these incendiary shells and the scroll of summoning aurochs were bought by Reimund at a great price from Reid, just to deal with this wooden camp, and now they have played a huge role.

  Watching his men being chased around like rabbits by the monster, Dennis was furious: "Archers, archers! Shoot it dead!"

  The words had barely fallen when several loud explosions were heard, and the outer walls on both sides of the camp suddenly collapsed in one corner. Immediately afterwards, a large group of heavily armed guards rushed in and killed the stunned thieves.

  "Sure enough, we've been attacked." Matthew's heart skipped a beat, but he remained calm.

  "Guard the gate," he ordered the robbers who were guarding it, and then immediately led his men to charge at the defending troops.

  Although those guys grasped the timing of the surprise attack very well, Haydinton's garrison had at most 200 people, and our side had an absolute advantage in numbers. As long as we can let our subordinates calm down as soon as possible, we will be able to annihilate them quickly.

  But just as Matthew led the crowd towards the Haidington guard team, he suddenly heard a loud shout from outside the camp: "Bastard, hurry up!"

  "What?" Matthew turned around in surprise, but was still unclear.

  Is there someone outside too?

  Before the gang of thieves could react, a voice responded, "Meow, I'm already very fast."

  At the same time, a white shadow suddenly appeared on the roof of a wooden house beside the gate.

  Bastet moved with a speed like a ghost, and almost at the same time she appeared, she had already jumped into the midst of the robbers guarding the gate. The men's eyes still retained her afterimage.

  The moment he landed, Bastard's hands instinctively reached for the curved knife at his waist, and in an instant, a flash of white light spun out with a soft whoosh.

  Those robbers didn't even have a chance to react. They almost simultaneously let out a miserable cry, and then fell to the ground with their necks spurting blood.

  At the same time, Bast stretched his knees slightly and suddenly sprang up like a spring, jumping towards the other two robbers several meters away. The two were shocked and could only exclaim: "You..."

  A flash of white light swept across the throats of the two men, and their voices were abruptly cut off in mid-air. Before they could even hit the ground, Bast stretched out a foot to touch one of the robbers' bodies, using it as leverage to jump up again and charge towards the man guarding the door.

  Watching with wide eyes as the cat woman descended from the sky, the bandit barely had time to stretch out his hand and touch the hilt of the sword at his waist, when a curved knife came down from above and swept across his body's midline.

  The bandit's body slowly emerged with a crimson line on his forehead, his eyes wide open in a daze, he opened his mouth as if to say something, and then splattered blood and fell to the ground.

  From appearance to killing six people, Bastet only used a few seconds, and at this time, the archers around her hadn't even had time to aim their arrows at her, showing how fast the cat woman was.

  Taking advantage of the remaining robbers being in a state of shock, Bast took quick steps to rush to the door and quickly untied the iron chains wrapped around the lock.

  At the same time, suddenly a person rushed out of the dark shrubbery outside the camp, raised his sword and slashed down fiercely at the gap between the two doors.

  It's Raymond!

  A heavy and sharp treasure sword, with the power of Raymond infused throughout his body, split open the door bolt as thick as a bowl. Following Raymond's kick, the camp gate finally opened wide.

  Then Matthew saw in despair, amidst the loud cries of murder, from behind Raymond, hundreds of fierce and ferocious men, armed to the teeth, rushing out.

  As the crowd approached, the bowmen at the door finally came to their senses, but the arrowheads in their hands wavered uncertainly, momentarily unsure whether to point at Bastard or attack Raymond.

  "Charge!" At this point, Harlot yelled loudly and led his men in.

  "Good job." Raymond gave the cat woman a thumbs up and then slashed down one of the bandits with his sword.

  "Meow, young master, is there a reward?" Bastet asked with an expectant face, while reversing her knife to cut the throat of a bandit who was trying to sneak up from behind.

  "If you want a reward...” Raymond dodged behind a pillar in a flash, and the next moment two arrows were nailed to where he was standing: “Get rid of these archers for me, and I'll let you eat delicious seafood until you're full.”

  "Sea fish!?" Bastard's mouth watered at once.

  "Alright, for the sake of seafood, you're going to die!" Wiping the saliva from the corner of her mouth, a glint flashed in the cat girl's eyes as she instantly targeted the bow-wielding man on the wall.

  "Waaah! Monster! I don't want to be killed by a seafood!"

  While the cat girl was fully motivated and killing the bowmen left and right, Ramon led Harlot and others to charge directly at Matthew's back.

  "How...how is this possible!" Watching as the crowd surged into the camp, Matthew's face was a picture of utter shock and amazement. He couldn't imagine how the gate could have been breached so easily.

  Although they had the upper hand, they suffered a series of setbacks and didn't even have time to react. Looking at everything in front of him, he felt like it was all just a nightmare.

  How did things become like this?

  However, there was no time for him to think about it, Raymond had already arrived in front of him, Matthew hastily drew his sword to block Raymond's powerful slash, the heavy force made him involuntarily retreat repeatedly.

  "What...what kind of people are you!?" He shouted involuntarily.

  "You don't need to know." Raymond casually chopped down a bandit trying to block his way, then shook off the fresh blood on his sword and approached Matthew.

  "The enemy has about 100 people, plus the Shanghai Dington's guard team, and their number is only half of ours. We still have a chance to win!" While thinking in his mind, Matthew ordered his subordinates to stop Raymond, and he himself turned around and ran towards the back of the camp.

  We need to find Dennis right away and calm that idiot down.

  At this time, the entire camp's rear half was already in a state of utter chaos, with raging flames, thick smoke, people fighting and bodies and blood on the ground, forming a scene that seemed like hell.

  That horned bull that was once so majestic had already been shot and turned into a hedgehog, its corpse lying on the ground. However, beside it were piled up even more corpses of bandits.

  The defending troops took advantage of the enemy's chaos and successfully killed many bandits in a surprise attack, then the battle situation became one-sided. Although the bandits had an advantage in numbers, the continuous sudden events made it impossible for them to organize effective defense, coupled with the impact of fire and smoke, many people were like headless flies, only fighting individually.

  Sean's ability was mediocre, but after all, he had been in the army and knew the necessity of maintaining an advantage. He would gather the defending troops who were attacking from both east and west, but instead of annihilating them, he would focus on places with many people.

  As soon as there was a sign of bandits gathering somewhere, he would lead the entire guard to press on and crush them with numerical superiority. Afterwards, however, they did not disperse to pursue and kill, but continued to crush the next gathering place of bandits.

  This allowed him to maintain a local advantage. Although it seemed that he didn't kill many enemies, he made it impossible for the numerically superior bandits to gather and resist, thus wearing them down, and even if the defending troops were very weak, they could still hold the upper hand.

  This is a very effective tactical application, while self-preservation, it can gradually consume the enemy, very suitable for defensive teams with strong discipline but weak combat effectiveness.

  If it were Harlot and the others, they would probably have started chasing after those bandits and killing them from the very beginning. Therefore, although their combat strength is strong, it is difficult for them to achieve this in a short period of time.

  When Matthew saw the situation behind the camp, he understood that there was no chance to turn over. Now all he could do was gather the remaining robbers and rush out quickly.

  "If I can just escape tonight, I will not rest until the entire Haddington knows what it's like to be worse off than dead!" Matthew vowed in his heart.

  At this time, he saw the disheveled Dennis and rushed forward to grab him, saying: "What are you still doing? Hurry up and take the remaining people away, hurry up and escape."

  "What!?" Dennis was furious: "Are you crazy? The other side is just a defensive team, we have many people, there's no reason to lose."

  "Idiot, can't you see? We don't stand a chance!" Matthew also lost his temper: "If we don't rush out now, it'll be too late!"

  "This is my camp, what about those treasures?" Denis said reluctantly.

  "We'll talk about it when you have the luxury of enjoying life."

  "Damn it..." Dennis gritted his teeth, thought for a moment, and finally nodded heavily: "Let's go!"

  "Exactly," Matthew said in a low, bitter tone. "As long as we can escape, I swear that one day I will avenge this! Outside, Jerek's troops are waiting to receive us."

  Then the two of them rounded up a group of robbers and rushed towards the entrance. Now the entire camp had become a mess, with both sides fighting together in a chaotic manner. Raymond's side only had over a hundred people, and Harold's group was poorly disciplined, barely able to maintain order normally, but now they were completely scattered.

  So Raymond sensed the intentions of the two and wanted to stop them, but he couldn't gather enough manpower, and could only watch as Dennis and Matthew broke through the blockade and escaped towards the door.

  Just as they were approaching the camp gate, Matthew suddenly heard a rapid horseshoe sound coming from outside, and he was overjoyed: "It's Jerick, he's finally back."

  The bandits immediately lifted their spirits and hastened their pace. The 200 men led by Jerek, especially the cavalry among them, had become their only hope.

  "Good, with their protection, we must be able to escape..." Matthew said, as if encouraging everyone, and also comforting himself.

  Before he could finish speaking, the first cavalryman appeared at the gate. However, what made the group of thieves instantly despair was that the knight on horseback wore a uniform of the Haidington Guard.

  Right behind them, a second, a third, and dozens of cavalrymen appeared at the gate, causing Matthew's heart to sink to the bottom.